For years now Labour under Starmer has refused to explicitly condemn the lurch to the far-right taken by both Reform and the Conservatives on immigration. The exact same criticism they are now making of Farage’s plans for mass deportations of legal residents too. If a Labour Government led by a former Human Rights lawyer can’t explicitly condemn a plan for arbitrary mass deportations then what on earth can it do? Voters attracted to the anti-migrant politics of Farage are not likely to be won over by appeals for a weaker but more competent alternative. By refusing to ever explicitly make them, Starmer and his Government are only increasing the likelihood that he one day will.